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Punish the Democrats, she says (discuss.online)
submitted 16 hours ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 118 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (10 children)

OP, per Rule 4, for accessibility reasons, an image of text must either have alt text or a transcript in the post body.

Edit: Counting this as a warning for future posts, OP, but since you might not be here to address this, a transcript in a comment as a lesser substitute:

Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh): How TF did Americans vote the clown in, not once but TWICE.

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This creator posted on Election Day 2024: "Punish the democrats for their passive response to the genocide in Palestine. If there ever was a party who should have stood firmly against it, we would've assumed the Dems. They proved otherwise. F Kamala Harris. Hope she loses.” [truncated URL to the post here]

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for having and enforcing this rule. It's appreciated!

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know it's not a lot, but when I was doing some UI work on PCSX2, I tried the screen reader Orca on Linux to see what a blind person's experience interacting with the UI was like. It was unusable. There was practically nothing. (Apparently on macOS it was kind of okay, but not because of anything the PCSX2 application was doing correctly.) It was staggering how terrible the experience was; even the tab ordering through the UI elements wasn't enforced, so the element focus was like a game of connect-the-dots darting around the window. We weren't using any – even trivial – accessibility functionality in Qt. To this day, I think most of that still needs to be done, as I only managed with my minimal knowledge to fix some low-hanging fruit (which would hopefully have at least helped a little).

What prompted me to try this? PS2 games are such a visual experience, after all. A fan replied to our Mastodon account saying that 1) he was totally blind from birth, 2) he loved playing PS2 games growing up, and 3) his favorite one was OutRun 2006 (yes, the high-speed racing game). This wasn't a gag; he was visibly blind and detailed his experience. This wasn't a one-off either; multiple users who note that they're totally blind in their bio have followed the account. It really humanized something I'd conceptualized generically as something you should do because it's a good thing to do. The most succinct way to put the lesson I was smacked in the face with was: "If you build it, they will come."

That is, I know for sure that it's not just a formality when I enforce it.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

This person is an idiot. The american public gave up on their one chance to influence the outcome of the presidency and fucked it up for everyone beyond comprehension, and are now still trying to push the blame on the establishment. Fuck every one of the sitouts and republican voters. You enabled the orange buffoon and couldnt see the threat he represented. Sometimes, when life gives you a choice between lemons and your way of life being destroyed in a childish tantrum, you swallow the fucking lemon.

Gaza and the world thanks you. Fuckers.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

I'm glad ghouls like you are suffering

[–] stemy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

Punishing a politician by electing one who is even worse according your own standards. In my country, this is called "voting for the fox because the rooster is crowing out of tune".

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 46 minutes ago

When genocide is bipartisan consensus in a country, the lesser evil is the destruction of that country

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Okay, so:

  • Voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with least horrible consequences and
  • Voting Democrat in the general election isn't nearly enough to stop the ratchet-effecting into fascism, and a stand-for-nothing placeholder centrist Democrat president in 2028 will probably just lead to Trump-3/Vance/someone similarly horrible in 2032

are unfortunately both true.

Also, non-MAGA Americans - democrats and leftists alike - need better people skills. With infighting like this, Republicans hardly even need to lift a finger.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

Also, non-MAGA Americans - democrats and leftists alike - need better people skills.

One of those two groups runs the party and demands that we both vote for them no matter how bad they get, while simultaneously telling us to fuck off.

[–] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 0 points 49 minutes ago

Kamla Harris was a total mistake of a candidate, she was never going to beat trump

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